Hair pad

ABSTRACT

A hair pad includes a hook-supporting tape and an ornamental sheet attached to a front surface of the hook-supporting tape. A plurality of slender hair-gripping hooks is fixed to a rear surface of the hook-supporting tape. Each of the hair-gripping hooks has a fixing end connected to the rear surface of the hook-supporting tape, and a free end provided with a diametrically expanded hook section. Each of the hook sections has a slant hooking surface coupled with a tip of the free end of the hair-gripping hook. With the hook sections and the slant hooking surfaces at the free ends of the hair-gripping hooks, the hair pad can be used as a hair ornament or a hair band to grip and hold hair in place.

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION

This non-provisional application claims priority under 35 U.S.C. §119(a)on Patent Application No(s). 099209635 filed in Taiwan, R.O.C. on May21, 2010, the entire contents of which are hereby incorporated byreference.

FIELD OF THE INVENTION

The present invention relates to a hair pad, and more particularly to ahair pad that may serve as a hair ornament or a hair band and can stablygrip and hold hair in place.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

There are various kinds of hair accessories, which decorate whilepreventing hair from getting loosened and messed. These hair accessoriescan be attached to hair in many ways. For example, the hair accessoriesmay be provided with a movable clip, allowing users to conveniently clipthe hair accessories to their hair to achieve both functions ofdecorating and holding hair in place. A hair band is one form of manyhair accessories for wearing on a user's head to similarly achieve theeffects of decorating hair and holding hair in place. The conventionalhair accessories provided with a clip or formed into a hair band usuallyrequire considerably high manufacturing cost. Further, it requirestroublesome process to hold hair with the clip on the hair accessory;and the conventional hair accessories could not be conveniently used tohold a large area of hair.

Recently, there has been developed a type of hair accessory, which isalso referred to as a hair pad. The currently available hair pad mainlyincludes a sheet, an inner side of which is formed with a large numberof hooks similar to the hook tape of a Velcro® tape; and patterns orother ornaments can be provided on an outer side of the sheet. A usermay lightly press the inner side of the hair pad against her hair, andthe large number of hooks would grip the hair to serve as an ornamentwhile holding the hair in place. However, the hooks on the inner side ofthe conventional hair pad are configured similar to the curved hooks onthe Velcro® tape and could not stably grip the hair in practical use ofthe hair pad because human hair is different from the piles on the looptape of the Velcro® tape after all. In brief, the conventional hair padtends to undesirably loosen from and accordingly fall off the hairduring use.

It is therefore tried by the inventor to develop a hair pad that isprovided on a rear surface with special hook structures capable ofstably gripping hair to prevent the hair pad from falling off duringuse.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

A primary object of the present invention is to provide a hair pad withimproved hook structures, so that hook sections and slant hookingsurfaces at free ends of a plurality of slender hair-gripping hooks ofthe hair pad can stably grip and hold a user's hair in place, preventingthe hair pad from falling off during use.

To achieve the above and other objects, the hair pad according to apreferred embodiment of the present invention includes a hook-supportingtape, an ornamental sheet attached to a front surface of thehook-supporting tape, and a plurality of slender hair-gripping hooksfixed to a rear surface of the hook-supporting tape. The hair-grippinghooks respectively have a fixing end connected to the rear surface ofthe hook-supporting tape, and a free end provided with a diametricallyexpanded hook section; and each of the hook sections has a slant hookingsurface coupled with a tip of the free end of the hair-gripping hook.

Preferably, the hook sections are respectively a domed body integrallyformed on the hair-gripping hooks, and the hair-gripping hooks arerespectively a curved long body with a circular cross section. And, thehook-supporting tape is a woven fabric, and the fixing ends of thehair-gripping hooks are inserted in between fibers of the woven fabric.Preferably, an adhesive is applied to between the fixing ends of thehair-gripping hooks and the fibers of the woven fabric.

In another embodiment of the present invention, the hair pad furtherincludes a layer of foamed material attached to the front surface of thehook-supporting tape, and the ornamental sheet is then covered on thelayer of foamed material.

Preferably, the ornamental sheet is a piece of woven fabric or plasticcloth, and has patterns or ornaments provided thereon.

With the above arrangements, the hair pad of the present invention canserve as a hair ornament or a hair band, and the hook sections and theslant hooking surfaces at the free ends of the hair-gripping hooks canstably grip and hold a user's hair in place to prevent the hair pad fromfalling off during use.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

The structure and the technical means adopted by the present inventionto achieve the above and other objects can be best understood byreferring to the following detailed description of the preferredembodiments and the accompanying drawings, wherein

FIG. 1 is an exploded perspective view of a hair pad according to apreferred embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is an assembled view of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a fragmentary and enlarged view showing a hook structure forthe hair pad according to the preferred embodiment of the presentinvention;

FIG. 4 shows an example of using the hair pad of the present inventionas a hair ornament;

FIG. 5 shows the hair pad of the present invention in the form of a hairband; and

FIG. 6 shows an example of using the hair pad of the present inventionas a hair band.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS

The present invention will now be described with some preferredembodiments thereof and with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Please refer to FIGS. 1 and 2 that are exploded and assembledperspective views, respectively, of a hair pad according to a preferredembodiment of the present invention. As shown, the hair pad includes ahook-supporting tape 1 and an ornamental sheet 2 attached to a frontsurface of the hook-supporting tape 1. The hook-supporting tape 1 andthe ornamental sheet 2 can be correspondingly cut into various shapes,such as a butterfly as that shown in FIG. 2 and a narrow strip as thatshown in FIG. 5. The hook-supporting tape 1 is provided on a rearsurface with a plurality of slender hair-gripping hooks 3. Please referto FIG. 3 that is a fragmentary and enlarged side view showing thehair-gripping hooks 3 on the hair pad of the present invention. Thehair-gripping hooks 3 respectively have a fixing end connected to therear surface of the hook-supporting tape 1, and a free end provided witha diametrically expanded hook section 31. Each of the hook sections 31has a slant hooking surface 32 coupled with a tip of the free end of thehair-gripping hook 3. With the above structure, the hair pad of thepresent invention can stick on the user's hair with the hook sections 31and the slant hooking surfaces 32 of the hair-gripping hooks 3 grippingand holding the hair in place.

As shown in FIGS. 1, 2 and 3, the hair-gripping hooks 3 and the hooksections 31 thereof can be integrally formed using a plastic material.For the purpose of gripping and holding the hair in place, thehair-gripping hooks 3 can respectively be a curved long body having acircular cross section, and the hook sections 31 can respectively be asubstantially domed body. The hook-supporting tape 1 may be implementedas a piece of woven fabric 11, so that the fixing ends of thehair-gripping hooks 3 can be inserted in between fibers of the wovenfabric 11. Further, an adhesive may be applied to between the fixingends of the hair-gripping hooks 3 and the fibers of the woven fabric 11,so that the hair-gripping hooks 3 and the hook-supporting tape 1 areable to firmly and securely connect to one another. The ornamental sheet2 can be directly attached to the front surface of the hook-supportingtape 1. Alternatively, a layer of foamed material 4 may be attached tothe front surface of the hook-supporting tape 1 first, and theornamental sheet 2 is then covered onto the foamed material 4. Theornamental sheet 2 can be a piece of woven fabric 21 or a piece ofplastic cloth. The ornamental sheet 2 may have patterns or otherornaments attached thereto, so that the hair pad not only serves to gripand hold hair in place, but also provides an ornamental function.

FIG. 4 shows one example of using the hair pad of the present invention.As shown, the user needs only to lightly press the rear surface of thehook-supporting tape 1 of the hair pad against a desired area of herhair, and the hair-gripping hooks 3 and the hook sections 31 thereofnaturally move into spaces in the hair. At this point, the hook sections31 and the slant hooking surfaces 32 would cooperatively grip the hairthereto. In this manner, the hair pad can stick on the hair withoutfalling off during use to thereby not only hold the hair in place butalso form a hair ornament.

FIGS. 5 and 6 show another example of using the hair pad of the presentinvention. As shown, the hook-supporting tape 1 and the ornamental sheet2 of the hair pad can be correspondingly cut into long strips. With thisconfiguration, the hair pad can be used as a hair band for puttingaround the hair above the user's forehead to simultaneously hold morehair in a large area while serving as a hair ornament.

With the above arrangements, the hair pad of the present invention isnovel and improved because the hair-gripping hooks 3 at the rear surfaceof the hair pad are modified for the hook sections 31 and the slanthooking surfaces 32 at the free ends of the hair-gripping hooks 3 togrip the hair, allowing the hair pad to stick on the hair without easilyfalling off during use. The hair pad of the present invention is alsoindustrially useful because products derived from the present inventionwould no doubt meet the market demands.

The present invention has been described with some preferred embodimentsthereof and it is understood that many changes and modifications in thedescribed embodiments can be carried out without departing from thescope and the spirit of the invention that is intended to be limitedonly by the appended claims.

1. A hair pad comprising a hook-supporting tape, an ornamental sheetattached to a front surface of the hook-supporting tape, and a pluralityof slender hair-gripping hooks fixed to a rear surface of thehook-supporting tape; the hair-gripping hooks respectively having afixing end connected to the rear surface of the hook-supporting tape,and a free end provided with a diametrically expanded hook section; andeach of the hook sections having a slant hooking surface coupled with atip of the free end of the hair-gripping hook.
 2. The hair pad asclaimed in claim 1, wherein the hook sections are respectively a domedbody integrally formed on the hair-gripping hook.
 3. The hair pad asclaimed in claim 2, wherein the hair-gripping hooks are respectively acurved long body having a circular cross section.
 4. The hair pad asclaimed in claim 1, wherein the hook-supporting tape is a woven fabric,and the fixing ends of the hair-gripping hooks are inserted in betweenfibers of the woven fabric.
 5. The hair pad as claimed in claim 4,wherein an adhesive is applied to between the fixing ends of thehair-gripping hooks and the fibers of the woven fabric.
 6. The hair padas claimed in claim 1, further comprising a layer of foamed materialattached to the front surface of the hook-supporting tape, and theornamental sheet being covered on the layer of foamed material.
 7. Thehair pad as claimed in claim 1, wherein the ornamental sheet is selectedfrom the group consisting of woven fabric and plastic cloth.
 8. The hairpad as claimed in claim 6, wherein the ornamental sheet is selected fromthe group consisting of woven fabric and plastic cloth.
 9. The hair padas claimed in claim 7, wherein the ornamental sheet has patterns orornaments provided thereon.
 10. The hair pad as claimed in claim 8,wherein the ornamental sheet has patterns or ornaments provided thereon.